Ivy-league definition

An association of eight universities and colleges in the northeast United States, comprising Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale.
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Of or resembling the traditions of the Ivy League.
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A group of colleges in the NE U.S. forming a league for intercollegiate sports.
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An association of eight universities and colleges in the USA, known for high quality.
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Origin of ivy-league

  • So called because of the ivy-covered older college buildings

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ivy-league Sentence Examples

  • An Ivy League professor detailed the workings of the brain while another discussed time, with both concluding it was absolutely impossible.

  • She is the former provost of Yale, part of the US Ivy League market-based system.

  • There is a myriad of pretentious students at this Ivy League school.

  • After eight years of shopping, attending an Ivy League school to become an Epidemiologist and working as a budding politician, she was completely broke.

  • It wasn't enough for Natalie Portman to be a talented actress, and in 1999, she began attending Ivy League school Harvard University.

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